Arielle Samuelson investigates the missing emissions from meat in UN calculations, over at the Heated newsletter.
Housebuilding is a political priority in many parts of the world, including the UK. A report from the Wildlife Trusts explains how to create housing developments that are good for wildlife.
If you’re reading this in the UK you’re probably not far from a SPAR cornershop. Here’s how the logistics division that supplies them cut emissions by optimising their delivery runs and reducing the number of vehicles running empty – across the logistics industry 30% of trucks on the road are empty.
All eyes have been on a different UN conference this week, but I’ve just been catching up on the results of the Summit for the Future that happened a few weeks ago. It acknowledges our obligations to the future in some new ways, and also formally opens the door to using measurements beyond GDP. Quietly useful perhaps.
I’m not getting much time for writing at the moment, as I’m busy with the suitably fast-paced Net Zero Accelerator Programme at work. But I got two articles out the door this week and we’ll see what I get round to in the next few days.
This week’s articles
The green rooftops of Milton Keynes
I don’t usually have much business there, but for various reasons I’ve had to make multiple trips to the city of Milton Keynes this month, 45 minutes up the road. On the last trip, for a conference on climate change and health, I met a man named Chris Bridgman who installs green roofs. Milton Keynes,…
Growth: A Reckoning, by Daniel Susskind
There is no political spectrum when it comes to growth. There is one God and one creed. In her brief tenure as Prime Minister, Liz Truss declared that she had “three priorities for our economy: growth, growth and growth.” In opposition that same year, Keir Starmer set out his radical alternative: “We need three things:…
The Earthbound Report 
Time we got away from wanting growth and worked toward reducing the amount if energy and resources we are using.
Hi Jeremy, I’ve signed up for the LocatED newsletter and keen to find out more. I will be relocating to Australia in Dec next year from Singapore and plan to be freelance again and put my skills and expertise into something like this and get very practical in carbon reduction while still working on the softer skills… I’d love to know if there is anything like the Net Zero Accelerator Programme in Australia… If you hear of anything or you know it is aiming to reach or connect with worldwide affiliates please let me know, or I can contact them and see what their plans are and how they might go about knowledge sharing with other countries. Many Thanks
d’Arcy.
Interesting – I’ll keep an eye out for projects like in Australia!